MYSORE: All schools in the district will have a library hour from from Wednesday.
To create interest among children in reading general books, the education department will make them visit library and read books of their interest for an hour. The library hour will be effective in government primary and high schools, social welfare, aided and unaided schools. They will have 'Shaala Shraddha Vachanalaya' (school library).
Headmasters of all schools have been asked to identify donors to contribute for books and bookshelves. Story books, dictionaries, novels, poetry collections, biographies and autobiographies will be collected from SDMC members, school alumni and the public.
On Wednesday, the initiative will be formally launched with the programme 'Tegeyiri Pustaka Horage - Hachiri Jnanada Deevige' in all schools. "For half-an-hour from 11am, students of all schools will read books in school library. Prior to that, a guest speaker will speak about the importance of reading," said DDPI B K Basavaraj. On the first day, two students from each school will write a letter to the educational minister about their opinion.
There are 3,165 schools in Mysore district and 4,43,000 students in primary and high schools. "When teachers are on leave, students can utilize the library. They can even borrow books from library," he added.
